Azure Cloud Engineer

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You Are:

AFS IT is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer that is ready to roll up your sleeves and tackle a multitude of complex, technological cloud computing challenges. From design, planning, management, and support - you will help AFS IT develop solutions for IT challenges and champion our vision to get off prem and into the cloud.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing cloud and onprem platforms from both an engineering and operations prospective utilizing devsecops methodologies
• Ensure security compliance with NIST 800-171
• Utilize Azure Arc for managing resources across on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments
• Design, Deploy and Support Azure cloud native components such as Availability Zones, Storage, Serverless, Load Balancers, Containerization, System Administration, Backups, Patching, etc.
• Managing and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute and virtual networks within the Azure Cloud platform
• Supporting Azure Monitor and Log Analytics for proactive monitoring and logging of Azure Resources and Services along with alerting, reporting and dashboarding
• Implement access management for core azure services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize cloud solutions and services in our Azure Commercial, Azure Gov, and OnPrem infrastructures
• Ability to work independently on assigned tasks but also work well in a cross-team environment
• Involved in workstreams where you are an active contributor and can talk to the progress and results of assigned tasks
• Work both engineering stories from an agile board and operational tasks from a ticketing queue.
• Enjoy learning new technologies quickly and staying up to date on cloud technology

Here's What You Need:

• US Citizen on US soil (required)
• 5+ years of experience in Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS design, deploy, and support
• 4+ years of experience in Windows Server administration (Server 2019, 2022 preferred)
• 3+ years of experience Operating an Azure environment (Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, Patching, Backups, Site Recovery)
• 1+ years of experience with Azure ARC
• 1+ years of experience with Azure RBAC and Access Management
• 1+ years of experience with Infra as Code (IaC) (ARM, Bicep, Terrafrom preferred)
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop strong professional relationships with fellow team members
• Ability to work well in a team environment as well as independently
• Ability to be on call as needed.

Bonus Points if you have: 

• Azure Administrator and/or Architecture Certification
• Experience migrating onprem systems to the cloud
• Experience with Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
• Experience with Azure Network, Compute and Storage systems
• Experience managing Windows Servers with Hyper-V and/or Azure ARC
• Experience with Azure Automation
• Experience with Infra as Code (Bicep preferred)
• Experience with Windows Server configuration management, performance testing, capacity management, system monitoring and alerting, update management and cost management
• Experience implementing STIGs (NIST, DISA, CIS preferred)
• Experience with On-Prem infrastructure - SAN, DAS, Host configurations

 

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